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The Last Fire Sale

April 30th, 2010

Today is the last day to get many of 12 to Midnight’s titles.

Instant Antagonist

November 20th, 2009

I just wanted to point out a new, neat little RPG supplements called Instant Antagonists. In short, they are villain profiles designed to be dropped into any modern horror campaign. Character stats are left to the GM since this is supposed to be system-agnostic, but it provides a worthwhile foe with multiple variations on background and [...]

ETU: Degrees of Horror teaser

November 4th, 2009

It’s hard to believe, but we began working on ETU: Degrees of Horror back in 2007. Sometimes the words flowed easily, and other times we made absolutely no new progress for months at a time. With the first draft complete and work begun on revisions and refinement, Ed and I wanted to reward our loyal [...]

Why Horror?

October 28th, 2009

In the Halloween-themed episode of Castle that just aired, the script writers floated the theory that people who showed a deep fascination with death usually had a triggering, traumatizing event in their past. Since the tv show is about a murder mystery writer, the obvious question was what caused him to be drawn to death. We viewers may not know that [...]

Officially the blog is still on hiatus, but I just wanted to let everyone know that 12 to Midnight is having our annual halloween sale. Almost all our modern horror e-books are 50% off. Even better, our horror anthology Buried Tales of Pinebox, Texas is only $0.99! If you haven’t picked up a copy of this [...]

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